An informal
SEMINAR
for discussion about notions in
PHYSICS & GEOMETRY
meeting on Wednesdays at two UK time
List of talks
Jun 15, tba, Izar Alonso Lorenzo
Jun 08 tba, Matija Tapuskovic
Jun 01 Spectral Decomposition of Partition Functions, Carmen Jorge Díaz
May 25 Topological orders, Thibault Décoppet
May 11 Refinements of G2 Structure, Matthew Magill
April 27 Kazhdan-Lusztig equivalence at the Iwahori level, Yuchen Fu
2022
March 09 Local operators of 4d N=2 gauge theories from the affine Grassmannian, Jihwan Oh
March 02 Twisted eleven-dimensional supergravity and exceptional lie algebras , Surya Raghavendran
February 23 Chiral algebras of class S, Sujay Nair
February 16 Local operators of 4d N=2 gauge theories from the affine grasmmannian, Wenjun Niu
2021
November 24 Categorical quantum mechanics, James Hefford
November 17 Symplectic duality, 3d mirror symmetry, and the Coulomb branch construction of Braverman-Finkelberg-Nakajima, Dylan Butson
November 10 3d N=4 theories on an elliptic curve, Daniel Zhang
November 3 Cluster algebras, Anders Schreiber
October 27 Calabi-Yau Modularity and Black Holes, Pyry Kuusela
October 13 The long shadow of 4d N = 2 SCFTs in mathematics, a collection of short talks by various speakers
June 16 Seiberg Witten Theory and Rational Elliptic Surfaces, Horia Magureanu
June 9 Donaldson's diagonalizability theorem, Guillem Cazassus
June 2 Superconformal algebras for (generalized) connected sums, Mateo Galdeano Solans
March 26 The BFN construction and monopole operators II, Alyosha Latyntsev
March 19 Seiberg-Witten theory, Sujay Nair
March 11 The BFN construction and monopole operators I, Alyosha Latyntsev
February 24 Higgs bundles and Hitchin systems: a physical perspective, Atul Sharma
February 15 The Gaiotto-Moore-Nietzke WKB paper, Alyosha Latyntsev
February 5 Records lost
January 28 Opers and Gaudin Hamiltonians, Sujay Nair
January 21 Quantisation of Hitchin's system, Alyosha Latyntsev
January 14 Records lost
January 6 Records lost
2020
December 17 Records lost
December 6 Records lost
December 2 A sketch of the BFN construction, Alyosha Latyntsev
November 26 An introduction to 3d N=4 theories, Atul Sharma
November 18 SCFTs and vertex algebras, Diego Berdeja Suárez
November 4 The Coulomb branch, Sujay Nair
Ground rules
Constructively heckle the speaker as much as possible- this is an informal seminar!
Consider joining us for ice cream after the talk
Posters for past talks
